Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats. Foobar 2000 is developed by Peter Pawlowski, a well known developer of Winamp plugins.

Features include:

Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player

Foobar is overall a great audio player but it has its pros and cons the pro is that its a very good tool for converting formats and the con is it takes up alot of the CPU to run the program when i just listen to music i use trout it takes hardly any CPU to rum the software.

Foobar plays most formats, and as the review says, there are loads of add-on components so it can handle ape, dts etc etc.
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<br/>So as a player, it plays. But then so do many other players like winamp or vlc.
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<br/>The killer part of Foobar200 for me is that it can bulk convert between formats. Basically, anything it can play, it can convert. I use it to transcode all my sould cloips to mp3 320k, and that makes them most likely to play on mac linux or handhelds.
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<br/>It'll quietly get on with working its way through a long long list, you just set it up, set it going by right clicking a selction of files, and leave it alone to get on with it. It'll report back errors at the end, not that there are many.
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<br/>I have just transcoded a LARGE bunch of flacs and m4a's to mp3 with only a couple of errors due to flac corruption: the originals wouldn't properly play anyway, I later found out.

Would like GUI volumn/mute controls, but the sound is awesome with Cambridge Soundworks 2.1 speaker system or LTB 5.1 headpones. All the musical elements are clear, distinct and powerful. Highly reccomend to anyone who wants quality over scenery in an audio player.

For filw mavens who use more than .mp3, this little, capable and very configurable bit of code is just what the doctor ordered. Almost every bit of this thing can be edited, tweaked or added on to. Fot the coder gurus, the available SDK lets you play god. The support forums for this are truly huge and active. Every version gets hammered in ways that Winamp could only dream about. The users of this program get this thing to do things i'm sure have the developer, Peter Paslowski, scratching his head. I love its low resource usage and high quality playback combined with the ability to burn audio CDs right from the playlist with no hiccups. It streams. It converts. It Replaygains. It plays .flac, .mp3, CD audio, .wma, .mod and brethren, speex, .aac, .mpc, .ogg, .wav, .aaif, .snd, .voc, shorten, .ape and I'm running out of room. It also supports console game music formats. It does all of this natively and seamlessly. Not bad for a freeware player.

I've been using the for a while now, and it has not let we down. Who needs the bells and whistles? As long as the quality keeps improving I'll use it.
How knows maybe later down the line there will come a gui for this player.

I've been using the for a while now, and it has not let we down. Who needs the bells and whistles? As long as the quality keeps improving I'll use it.
How knows maybe later down the line there will come a gui for this player.